This month's ActiveRain Challenge is about how we have changed since we started real estate.
More precisely: "How has your Professional or Personal Life Changed from when you started your career in the Real Estate Industry (or as a blogger on ActiveRain) to where you are now?"
As I started in Baltimore real estate almost 27 years ago when I was only 22 years old, quite a bit in both my professional and personal life has changed!
At 22, I had just finished college, just moved to Baltimore, and was trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life. Freshly engaged to my now-husband, we moved to Baltimore for him to attend law school and work with his father at his father's law firm.
I had gotten a job in an apartment community, where I was promoted multiple times pretty quickly. Though I enjoyed touring people around the apartments and community, I didn't love the daily commute or the job as I moved up. Getting into rent payments and having to attend rent court for non-payments was not something I enjoyed.
My fiance saw in me how much I enjoyed being around people and the actual act of showing homes and handling the lease paperwork, and recommended I consider getting into real estate. He was right! It was the right fit!
I have mentioned before that not only was I young, I looked even younger. I bought inexpensive suits in the Junior departments at Macy's and TJ Maxx, and did what I could to look older.
I assisted multiple agents with graphic designs (I had to laugh when I saw an agent who I created flyers for in the early 2000's still using my design for a flyer in 2022) and I learned so much shadowing seasoned professionals.
Ask me to be on a Board? Yes! Ask me to be on a committee? Yes! I was so involved with everything I could be.
NOW?
Well, my child was born in 2006. College begins in the Fall out of State.
I no longer wear suits (I actually don't think I own any that fit anymore,) and I don't say yes to every committee or board.
I've grown a lot professionally and emotionally. I often say yes only when it is something I *want* to take on.
I help to answer questions for newer agents because I remembered how much it helped me when I was the younger one without the experience.
Most of all, I am very confident in who I am and feel very strongly that I am there to help my clients make the best decisions they can for themselves.
I feel my knowledge and experience is strong, and my clients get the best I can give every day.
Change can be great.
Thank you to Patricia Feager and Lew Corcoran for July's AR Challenge!
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